Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Eligibility Determinations and Enrollment Report from May 2016. To read the report from CMS, click here. This report can also be found on our Resources & Links page under “Enrollment Statistics.” If you are looking for prior Medicaid enrollment reports from CMS, we recently added a new page to […] Read More »
Archives for July 2016
CMS Issues New Guidance on Coordination of Coverage between Programs
Yesterday, CMS issued new guidance on the coordination of eligibility and enrollment between Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. To download a copy of the new guidance, click here. Read More »
July 22, 2016
NEW TOOLKIT AVAILABLE FOR BACK-TO-SCHOOL OUTREACH Please note that for the summer the NDNRC Update is being released on a biweekly basis. Are you looking for ways to use the upcoming Back-To-School season as a way to do outreach to enroll children and teens in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)? As part […] Read More »
Commonwealth Fund Looks at Insurer’s Profitability under the ACA
A new issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund addresses health insurance company’s profitability under the ACA. The issue brief is entitled “How Has the Affordable Care Act Affected Health Insurers’ Financial Performance?” Some of the main takeaways show that insurance companies that lost money under the ACA had not been profitable prior to the ACA […] Read More »
CMS Releases SHOP Enrollment Manual for OE4
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the enrollment manual for the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). The manual applies to the upcoming open enrollment period for 2017 (OE4) and applies to any of the SHOPs in states where the SHOP is federally facilitated. The manual also addresses some issues in the individual marketplace including […] Read More »
New Report Addresses Standardized Benefit Designs in SBMs
A new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute looks at how successful state-based marketplaces (SBMs) have been with implementing standardized benefit design. The report examined four SBMs, all of which allow non-standardized plans in addition to standardized ones. The four states were Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon. The study finds […] Read More »
July 8, 2016
NEW GUIDANCE FROM CMS ON RE-ENROLLMENT Please note that for the summer the NDNRC Update is being released on a biweekly basis. If you’re wondering what will happen with re-enrollment to the consumers who are enrolled in plans offered by one of the health insurance carriers leaving the marketplace, CMS has released new guidance to […] Read More »
Kaiser Brief Examines Medicaid Trends
A new issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the trends in state Medicaid programs over the last 15 years. The information in the brief is a compilation of years of surveys conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Management Associates of the state Medicaid programs. In their brief entitled “Trends in State Medicaid […] Read More »